
One of my favorite traditions is the pilot planting a flag after landing back home.
I only started doing this after my shuttle program (STS-2, original I know). When my landings were shit we used to put the flags where the ol girl ended up finally stopping (theres a couple on the beach, and some from spin outs off the runway a bit further east), but now that we've learned how to properly land, once the shuttle is on final taxi after a mission the pilot hops out and plants a flag in this little area.
Some of these missions were simply going to the Mun to find a good base location with a lander (2xx-L), to completely retrofitting a space station (2xx-C), or even some SSTOs got in there for crew changes. It feels like a solid accomplishment when I go to the "meadow of heros" and plant a flag, even if it was just because we forgot Bill in the cupola during a crew change and had to go back up to get him.
Anyone else have fun traditions like this?